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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM ANDREW LEEOH AND GEORGE WASHINGTON FOGLE, OF NEW OOMER STOWN,OHIO.

NUT- LOCK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 380,123, dated March2'7, 1888.

Application filed December 21, 1887a Serial No. 258,617. (No model.)

To aZZ whom, it may concern: I

Be it known that we, WILLIAM ANDREW LEEOH and GEORGE WASHINGTON FoeLE,citizens of the United States, residing at New Gomerstown, in the countyof Tuscarawas and State of Ohio, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in Rail-Joints, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to improvements in nut-locks; and it consists inthe construction and novel combination of parts hereinafterdescribed,and pointed out in the appended claims. E

In the drawings, Figure 1 represents aperspective view of aunt-lockembodying theinvention. Fig. 2 isa transverse section through thenut-lock at one of the bolts.

Referring to the drawings by letter, A A designate the meeting ends oftwo adjoining rails having the heads a, the webs a, and the flanges a a.

B B are similar fish-plates fitting snugly between the heads and flangeson each side of the meeting ends, and provided with the outstandingflanges b, longitudinally notched at b to fit on the edges of thecorresponding flanges of the rails, and having their lower surfacesflush with the lower surfaces of said flanges, so that both fish-platesand rails will rest squarely on the chair-plate O, with the edgeflanges, c c, of said plate resting against the edges of the flanges bof the fish-plates.

D D are spike-openings in the chair-plate that register when the partsare in position with the spike-notches d d in the edges of the flanges bof the fish-plates.

E E are rectangular nuts, each having a horizontal rectangularextension, e, of its upper part in one direction and a similarextension, 0', of its lower part in the opposite direction. The saidextensions are each half as wide as the nuts, but not quite long enoughto reach to adjacent nuts on each side, so that when the nuts are inposition the upper and lower projections of adjacent nuts will restagainst each other, but will not touch the adjacent nuts.

To put the parts together each nut is separately held in place over thecorresponding bolt-hole in the fish-plate of that side, and v the boltsG screwed home. The spikes]? are then driven through the notches d andopenings D to hold the rails and fish-plates to the chair-plates. Thebolts G are made with a squared end, 9, or, a squared projection, on

turned with a common wrench. Spiking the joint to the chair-plateprevents it from creeping on grades, and the flanges of the chairplateprevent the fish-plates from spreading- The joints being very solid andcompact, and the nuts prevented from turning by the projectious e e,which mutually impinge against each other and against the heads of therails and flanges of the fish-plates, the vibrations of the passingrails cannot jar the nuts off from the bolts. The extensions 6 e preventthe nuts from turning on the fish-plate, so that the outside of theirheads, so that they can be the nuts have to, be put or held in placeand.

the bolts screwed into them.

Having described our invention, we claim- 1. In a nut-lock, thecombination, with the rails, fish-plates, and bolts, of the rectangularnuts on each side of the meeting ends of the rails and provided with theextensions 6 e, re-

spectively, at their upper and lower opposite corners, which extensionshave half of-the.

width of the nuts and are sufficiently long to prevent the nuts fromturning out of line to any appreciable degree without impinging eitheron the rail-head or the flange of the fishplate, substantially asspecified.

2. In a nut-lock, the combination, with the

